PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Children’s Book Bank in Portland has been quietly handing out tens of thousands of books to low-income children in Multnomah County for about 18 months. The shoestring outfit collects used and new children’s books — mostly for the preschool set — and distributes them to children enrolled in Head Start and other programs that serve low-income children across the county.
Each child gets a bag filled with 15 books, two or three of them new.
The book bank is the brainchild of Danielle Swope, a Portland mom of four who found herself wondering what to do with her kids’ books once they’d outgrown them. She considered donating them to the library or Goodwill, but worried the books wouldn’t end up in the hands of children who really needed them. So she decided to give them to Head Start programs.
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com
